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The Whisky Moloch’s Human Tribute

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · Aug 31, 1905

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 82, No. 35.

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The Whisky Moloch’s Human Tribute

The annual report of the Interstate Commerce Commission, just published, shows for 1904 a casualty list on American railways of 10,046 persons killed and 84,155 injured. These figures are exciting much press comment, accompanied by demands for remedial legislation; yet this sacrifice to carelessness and greed, appalling though it is, is but a fraction of the annual tribute of life and suffering paid in this country to the whisky Moloch, which, unlike the railways, serves no useful purpose whatever, but is an infliction as unnecessary as it is evil. Yet no great stir is made over the prospective continuation of this sacrifice.